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Complete list of all third party tools, spreadsheets, manuals and other data sources

Due to its size I´m getting all sorts of rare,technical problems with it. Countless re edits to get is somewhat right. I apologize for leaking spoiler tags etc.Announcement: Monday the 17th of AugustGREAT NEWS TO REPORT. EDCodex has finally been officially released to the community.
Thread: EDCodex. The complete list of third-party tools for Elite Dangerous - Community driven website
Website: edcodex.infoI'm contemplating about having this thread closed. Depends on several things. One being if the official EDCodex thread can be made a sticky.

Announcement: Wednesday the 6th of AugustEDCodex has entered the pre-release phase on the 6th of August. Meaning its almost done and Tool authors (85 tools) have been invited to enhance/edit their entries before the official release. The authors for the sections Thread, Community and Videos will get an invite shortly. For more information click here.

Announcement: Monday the 13th of July.
The official name for the upcoming website version of this thread is EDCodex.The codename was ED3PTT. See this poll thread for detailed information.

Caveat emperor: The legality and usage of tools that use the API is prohibited by FD. When asked about it, in this post by Michael Brookes the answer is still not allowed.

Annoucement: Friday the 10th of April.
The future of the third party tools list is secured thanks to commander biobob.

I´ve posted this earlier as a post in the thread but because of much new posts lately it got snowed. It should have been mentioned here in the first place. The original post is from the 27th of March 2015.

For those who have been following this thread you have noticed a few things.

The OP has problems as the contents its getting to big, resulting in leaking spoiler tags etc.

The OP has not been updated in a while and I´ve not added posted entries by commanders (thanks) to the OP in a while.

I´ve asked a few times for help to get a website version of the tools list.

Well I´ve brilliant news to report. I´ve been contacted by commander Biobob who is currently creating an advanced database driven website version of the OP. What can you expect of the new tools list? See here and here to give you a rough idea for what we have in mind.Biobob came up with things I was dreaming about but were afraid to ask ;-)

When will it be ready? Now its is the 10th of April.We have a date in mind but I can´t reveal that yet. The base is currently implemented and entries can be added/edited. More fields will be introduced - which needs to be filled. Biobob has a lot of work ahead for all the advanced features..... Before releasing the tool I at least want to have all entries from the OP and entries reported by commanders here (thanks a lot) in it. As well as all the tools/threads from the "crowd sourcing 3D coordinates" and "EDDN" threads. There are still hidden quite a lot of brilliant tools/gems in there.

After its finished adding entries will be a snap for me, authors of tools and other commanders. The goal is to have a website (optimized for SEO, tablets as well as smartphones are taking into account wrt UI) which ALL commanders can use to add and edit entries. Logging in will be required for that - to prevent SPAM and pranksters. Its a community effort. At release we try to have as much entries as possible. Currently(20150410) 49 tools and 41 threads. Keeping those all updated is NOT possible for biobob and myself. Hence the success or failure of the tool depends on the community.

My codename for the project is: ED3PTT (Elite Dangerous 3rd Party Tools Tool. Biobob has come up with a better and more catchy name. We have NOT yet decided on the final name. If you have an idea for a good name which sums up the functionality quite nicely as well as sounding great PLEASE DO report it here. It will be taken into consideration. Should we decide on a name provided by a commander I´m sure we will credit you for it!!!

A consequence of the current situation: I won´t be updating the OP till the website is ready and released.
Please DO continue to report new entries. They WILL find their way to the new website - before release.

Well at least that is the ambition.

There is an IMMENSE amount of information floating around in the threads. Third party tools, spreadsheets for things like trading and others containing all sort of useful data. Also there a few very good manuals out there. In the crowd source thread I've created a small list, tools created for the crowd sourcing project and tools which use the 3D coordinates. This has been used as a base from which I built this OP.

Announcements: Thurday the 30th of January

A very interesting thread by Maddavo: "Price sharing - price sanity check algorithms". I think this is a VERY useful thread. Might I suggest hopping over there and give your opinion about the matter. I'm sure that we as a community can come with some clever ideas. In the all tools could be benefit from it. Not only EDDN - which distributes quite a large percentage of the commodities prices market.

Anouncements history

Tuesday the 20th of January

Elite Shipyard is a very very usefull tool for outfitting your ship. You know the consequences of your new setup before you buy it. Things like insurance, jump range etc. He needs your help to get all data. Thread: Pilots, I Need Your Data! (for Elite Shipyard)

Thursday the 15th of JanuaryThe External API requirements thread by Michael Brookes. He is asking what 3rd party tool makers need wrt the upcoming web-api.
Go go go over there and let FD know what we need!!! You can find the thread here.

Current list - probably far from complete. Trading tools. Number of entries: 5

Name: Cmdr's Log
Author: ArchV1
Description: A handy replacement for what you would normally do with a pen and paper.
Website: N/A
Source available: N/A
Thread: New Trading Tool - Cmdr's Log v1.1!
Compatible with Release: Yes
Comments: By the author: If you are looking for a crowd-sourced trading tool, you can stop reading now because this isn't for you.

Name: ELITE: DANGEROUS TOOL
Author: Dolpa
Description: Route planner.
Website: ELITE: DANGEROUS TOOL
Source available: N/A
Thread: N/A
Compatible with Release: YES
Comments: Atm 20150105 he doesn't have a thread for it. He announced his tool in this post in this thread. Atm its a route planner but more functionality is planned.

Name: Elite-Copilot
Author: w0nk0
Description: Route planner, with voice so you know which system to select next in the system map.
Website: N/A
Source available: Yes. Open source license: not specified. GitHub repository.
Threads: reddit forum: Elite-Copilot. FD forum: Galaxy map routing too slow? Elite Copilot has quick routing and voice navigation!
Compatible with Release: Yes
Comments: From the author, new functionality:
- Ability to get a log of all systems you visited while you had E.C. running.
- an in-game overlay with user-configurable color scheme
- a built-in web server so you can have routing information on your smartphone as an external display
- dynamic rerouting when you are in a system not in your route

Name: Elite Dangerous : Pilot Log Book
Author: KevinMillican
Description: Elite Dangerous : Pilot Log Book. Webbased.
Website: Elite Dangerous : Pilot Log Book
Source available:
Thread: Shared Online Pilot Logs
Compatible with Release: Yes
Comments: Contains info about systems, station/platforms in it, coordinates, commodities, Black market etc. It even has photo's of station/platform. I believe its updated from TGC (for system names and coordinates). When TGC is able to handle static information like stations etc I believe the intention is to upload that info to TGC. Not sure if it has a web-api to retrieve information from it. But it has an export functionality.

Name: Elite-Copilot
Author: w0nk0
Description: Route planner, with voice so you know which system to select next in the system map. Also captains log.
Website: N/A
Source available: Yes. Open source license: not specified. GitHub repository.
Threads: reddit forum: Elite-Copilot. FD forum: Galaxy map routing too slow? Elite Copilot has quick routing and voice navigation!
Compatible with Release: Yes
Comments: From the author, new functionality:
- Ability to get a log of all systems you visited while you had E.C. running.
- an in-game overlay with user-configurable color scheme
- a built-in web server so you can have routing information on your smartphone as an external display
- dynamic rerouting when you are in a system not in your route

Name: Commodity Price Grabber
Author: CashMoney aka DestroyBoy on reddit
Description: A complete OCR solution for retrieving prices of the Commodities Market
Website: N/A
Source available: Yes. Open source license: not specified. Github repository.
Thread: My Commodity Price Grabber script is on GitHub
Compatible with Release:
Comments: It contains a BPC_Feeder to put values into the BPC. For that you need to have the BPC running as it simulates key presses. You can a demo of the tool inclusive the BPC Feeder in action here. The author has good info about how to set it up, walkthrough etc. BPC Feeder will be integrated into EliteOCR as LasseB. has discontinued his feeder (20141210).

Name: EDDN - Elite Dangerous Data Network.
Author: jamesremuscat
Description: A tool like EMDN. Dynamic data (like commodities prices) can be uploaded to it and its directly distributed to all clients listening to EDDN. Its basically a data relayer.
Website: N/A
Source available: Yes.
Thread: EDDN - Elite Dangerous Data Network. Trading tools sharing info in an unified way.
Compatible with Release: Yes
Comments: I created a thread for it and jamesremuscat was willing to setup EDDN. kfsone (Trade Dangerous) and Thrudd have said to support it. Status for the BPC is unknown. It will initially be used for the distribution of prices but will be made so that it will support all kinds of dynamic data. Note: Its not made publicly available yet, 20141205

Web-api, data sources. Number of entries: 2

Name: TGC (The Great Collector)
Author: TornSoul
Description: A web-api for static information like coordinates, station names, has station a Black market etc.
Website: TGC
Source available: No
Thread: N/A
Compatible with Release: Yes
Comments: TGC was developed for the crowd sourcing project. Initially commanders could upload distances and TGC would calculate the 3D coordinates for a system. Later it was decided to extend its reach with all kind of static data. Note: 20141205, static data is NOT yet supported by TGC. TGC doesn't have its own thread yet. Its discussed and questions can be asked about it in the thread ""What is the most efficient way to crowdsource the 3D sytem coordinates for Beta 2 ?"

Name: Elite: Dangerous Pilot's Guide/Manual/Tutorial/Help
Author: forger
Description: A very large (186 pages) manual about ED. A work of love.
Thread: Elite: Dangerous Pilot's Guide/Manual/Tutorial/Help
Compatible with Release: No
Comments: There is very little change between Gamma and Release. Hence perfectly usable. He also has 3 ED themed calendars!! Also there are links to other pdf files.

Name: DevStalker
Author:
Description: Unofficial RSS feed with FDEV posts in the FD forums.
Website: http://www.miggy.org/games/elite-dan...-dev-posts.rss
Source available: N/A
Thread: N/A
Compatible with Release: Yes
Comments: Its a RSS feed. Without a suitable RSS reader (like for example Bamboo for FireFox) you just a webpage with XML in it. Very useful if you want to keep track of what is being post by FD.

Name: Star data
Author: Athan
Description:
Website: Star data
Source available: No
Thread: N/A
Compatible with Release: No.
Comments: From the author: "The tool is using real star data and the information I could find on transforming that to the ED co-ordinate system. It's absolutely not based on the actual ED stars at all. Thus it will be missing every single procedurally generated star, and it's also at least missing all the WISE ones as well. I highlighted it here purely as a helper if people are wondering "hmmm, I wonder which ED star such and such real star is based on".

Name:
Author: TornSoul
Description: A simple but effective viewer which shows the systems with an economy.
Website: Point Cloud
Source available: No
Thread: N/A
Compatible with Release: Yes
Comments: It contains the list of 19833 systems with an economy the crowd source coordinates project received from Michael Brookes when Gamma was released - GREAT gesture by FD. PC is a simple tool but it shows beautifully where the systems which have an economy are positioned in the Galaxy.

Miscellaneous. Number of entries: 8

Name: galnewsreader
Author: Dweezil Moon
Description: tool to reformat the official Frontiers' Galnet News page to something Text2Speech friendly. Intended for VoiceAttack users but can probably be used by other tools. There is also an option to get the weekly summary from Frontier's Newsletter.
Source available: Yes. Open source license: GPL v3. GitHub repository
Thread: [AUDIO] Galnews feed -> TTS
Compatible with Release: yes
Comments:

Name: Maddavo's Market Share (MMS)
Author: maddavo
Description: Merging tool for Trade Dangerous (TD)
Website: MMS
Source available: No
Thread: N/A.
Compatible with Release: Yes
Comments: Its a plugin for TD. Users can upload their TD .prices file (using TD) and get a merged .prices back. This will consist of all .prices submitted by others AND the prices received from EDDN. Also check out the other tools mentioned on his site like the online version of RedWizzards tool to calculate coordinates for new systems.

Name: Commander Mafi's PAPA
Author: mafi
Description: A handy replacement for what you would normally do with a pen and paper.
Website: N/A
Source available: NO
Thread: Introducing Commander Mafi's PAPA
Compatible with Release: Yes
Comments: By the author "This program provides a graphics user interface (GUI) to store and manipulate data a commander comes across the space simulation game "Elite Dangerous""

Name:
Author: RedWizzard.
Description: Web based. Runs locally in your browser. Complete overview of star system data, which can be viewed/sorted in different ways. It can also be used for collecting distances and submitting them to TGC - where the coordinates are (re)calculated.
Website: N/A
Source available: Yes. Open source license: The MIT License (MIT). Github repository
Thread: N/A
Compatible with Release: Yes
Comments: RedWizzard is the maintainer of TOR (The One Reference). It contains the coordinates of all so far found mapped star systems in the crowdsource project. It has support for TGC (The Great Collector).

Name:
Author: sngerous
Description: Discussing a general and optimal database setup for multiple applications.
Website: N/A
Source available:
Thread: [GENERAL] Common Use SQL Game Database Source
Compatible with Release: Yes
Comments: Ambituous and very interesting thread. The commander has asked for assistance.

Name: E : D Shipyard
Author: taleden
Description: A simple web-based tool to experiment with outfittings and calculate jump ranges, buy/rebuy costs, etc
Website:Elite Shipyard
Source available: No
Thread: Elite Shipyard
Compatible with Release: Yes
Comments: 20150116. From the author: Almost all high-end ships and modules (Python, Type-9, Anaconda) are now supported; the only major thing still missing is the Orca, because I haven't yet found anyone who owns one and can send me data on the modules that it alone can fit (class 6 life supports).

List of tools and programs created for the crowd source project. Number of entries: 9

Not all tools created by commanders have been made public.
Before I give a list of tools I have to give credit to Codec. He was the first person who published a spreadsheet with input form. It also calculates/shows coordinates. Atm most crowd source data is coming from other tools.

Which tool is best?
I won't answer that one here as they all are (technically) beautiful and suited for the crowd source effort. Try them out. You can ask the commanders in the forum which tool they like the most - for a certain task.

No longer maintained tools or not updated for Release. Not valid for Release. Number of entries: 4

Name: BPC Feeder
Author: Lasse B.
Description: Its feeds EliteOCR data from its .csv files into Slopey's BPC
Website: N/A
Source available: Yes. Open Source license: not specified. Program with sources.
Thread: None. But its mentioned in the EliteOCR thread, here.
Compatible with Release: No.
Comments: The author because of limited time couldn't get it to work on some systems/configurations. He decided to discontinue the feeder (20141210). Also the EliteOCR now has native support for a .BPC files, which can be ued by the BPC.

Name:
Author: snuble
Description: Webbased tool. Shows bubble/pill split up in grids. Shows more then just 3D coordinates for a star system.
Website: http://travel-eliteadvisor.rhcloud.com/index.php
Source available: No
Thread: N/A
Compatible with Release: No
Comments: Last updated for Standard Beta 2.

Other threads I created (for gathering info for ED) which can use your help.

Hopefully in the end the thread can live up to its name.
Although I visit the forums very frequently I know I'm missing a lot of good tools. Hence I DO need the help of you all for that. If you know of other good sources of information, third party tools, manuals, spreadsheets, data sources I would appreciate it, if you could post it here. I don't discriminate. Each and every tool, manual, resource will be put on the OP of this thread

Sometimes a commander is using his forum name and sometimes his real name. Biteketkergetek is the author of Allila's Starchart. It was in list 2 BUT I've now changed the generic word website into Allila's Starchart. BTW Biteketkergetek has also done some nice work for the crowd sourcing project ;-)

Thanks for the input. Keep it coming. I know for a fact that my list is very small wrt what is out there.

Do you know where I can get the basic x, y , z coordinates of systems on the star map? They go something like -100, 14, -30 etc. Not after the exact locations just the broad x, y, z that you can see on the galaxy map grid.

Do you know where I can get the basic x, y , z coordinates of systems on the star map? They go something like -100, 14, -30 etc. Not after the exact locations just the broad x, y, z that you can see on the galaxy map grid.

I will be searching for my emails again, now for not tradings/navigation tools/info related stuff. Will dig up something more. BUT I can NOT do this alone. So if anyone has some info about tools, spreadsheets, manuals, data sources PLEASE DO POST them here.

Alone I will FAIL, together we will SUCCEED.
Hopefully it will make life easier for those new to ED and also for seasoned commanders.
That is my hope and the reason for doing it - which is time consuming.